President Donald Trump announced Saturday that he is nominating longtime Oklahoma law enforcement officer Lance Schroyer to serve as the next director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
In announcing the nomination, Trump highlighted Schroyer’s 29-year career in Oklahoma law enforcement and said he would play a key role in carrying out the administration’s immigration enforcement agenda and efforts to crack down on illegal immigration.
“I am very pleased to announce that I have nominated Lance Schroyer to be our next ICE Director. Lance has over 29 YEARS of Law Enforcement experience in Oklahoma — A State where I WON all 77 Counties in 2016, 2020, and 2024! Lance is a former Oklahoma State Trooper, and United States Marine,” Trump wrote on Truth Social in announcing his pick.
“He is a PATRIOT with real operational experience, and proven leader with DECADES of experience locking up the worst of the worst, including spearheading 287g Law Enforcement partnerships with ICE!” he wrote.
“Lance has firsthand experience getting Illegal Aliens OFF our streets and, just like ME and our Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin, he LOVES the men and women of ICE. Importantly, Lance Schroyer has what it takes to DETAIN AND DEPORT Illegal Alien Criminals, including murders, rapists, and drug traffickers at a rate never seen before! Remember, our Administration has the HIGHEST Daily Arrest Rate by ICE and CBP than ANY other President, by far,” he added.
The president concluded: “It’s not even close! The Senate must CONFIRM Lance, IMMEDIATELY — Do not delay. Together, we will MAKE AMERICA SAFE AGAIN.”
Mullin also weighed in on Trump’s nominee.
“President Trump has nominated Lance Schroyer to serve as the ICE Director,” Mullin began in an X post.
“With over 29 years of law enforcement experience, Lance will play a vital role in helping deliver on the President’s mandate from the American people to target, arrest, and deport illegal aliens,” he wrote.
“Lance is coming straight from the operational field where he ran large scale operations and worked alongside state and federal partners to remove illegal aliens from Oklahoma under the 287g program,” Mullin, himself a former U.S. senator from Oklahoma, continued.
“President Trump made a great pick, and I’m confident Lance’s strong leadership and firsthand experience will empower the men and women of ICE to deport criminal illegal aliens, secure the homeland, and protect the American people,” he added.
“It has been 11 years since @DHSgov has had a Senate confirmed @ICEgov Director. The Senate must quickly confirm Lance Schroyer,” Mullin’s post concluded.
Mullin and Schroyer have had a longstanding relationship. ABC News reported that a source told the outlet Schroyer was Mullin’s choice to head up ICE.
David Venturella has been the acting director of ICE since he took over for Todd Lyons, who resigned from the role on May 31. Venturella will remain in this position until Schroyer is confirmed, according to the source.
Venturella assumed the role formally on June 1 after Lyons completed the transition at the end of May.
The leadership change comes during one of the most intense periods of immigration enforcement in modern U.S. history.
ICE is rapidly expanding detention capacity, increasing arrests nationwide, and operating under mounting political scrutiny from both supporters and critics of Trump’s deportation agenda.
A DHS spokesperson confirmed Venturella’s appointment in May, while administration officials emphasized his decades of experience inside federal immigration enforcement.
Venturella previously served within ICE during both the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations before leaving government in 2012 to work for GEO Group, one of the nation’s largest private prison contractors.
He later returned to ICE after Trump’s return to the White House and most recently oversaw detention and facility contracting operations within DHS.
Venturella is also widely viewed as a close ally of White House border czar Tom Homan, who has become one of the most influential architects of Trump’s immigration crackdown.
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